Currently there is a list of five overall links above the three audience boxes. Basically this is fine, but should be reduced:
- About this site
- Fine
- About MediaWiki
- Fine
- Download
- Move into operating and installation landing page.
- Not needed for page content editor, confusing.
- Help and support
- Fine
- Contribute
- Move into programmer’s landing page.
- Not needed for page content editor nor site operator, confusing.
- I doubt that advertising here will make article authors to software developers, at least not by placing a prominent link which distracts focus.
- A general remark, perhaps in the footer region of the front page, might annotate that volunteers and professionals are developing MediaWiki and that everybody is invited to support. But that needs explanation and is not well done by a link with one word.
- Other contributions are not at programming level, but translation, documentation, suggestions. This may be done by everybody even without technical skills.
- In the footer region of every landing page and front page it might be mentioned that such non technical contributions are desired (naturally by sharing a template). However, it is not sufficient to say only “Contribute” since nobody will follow such link, expecting coding experience required.